Man charged with capital sexual battery

A 47-year-old man was charged Thursday with capital sexual battery of a 9-year-old girl.

By Austin L. Miller

OCALA - A 47-year-old man was charged Thursday with capital sexual battery of a 9-year-old girl.

In early August, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office received a report from the Department of Children and Families about the girl being abused. The child was interviewed at Kimberly’s Center for Child Protection and said that when she was younger she was awakened from sleep by a man molesting her, according to MCSO reports.

During the interview it was stated that the man, later identified as Robert Lloyd Mashburn, thought he was touching a woman.

Mashburn agreed to come to the Sheriff’s Office for a polygraph examination, which he failed. He told detective Frank Scala he had been drinking and said it was possible he touched the victim inappropriately, thinking it was his girlfriend.

Mashburn was arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail.

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